Problem with Flash Player Plug In for Firefox crashing

[Artaxerxes144]

Hello,

        How do I check to see if the above subject is working properly? I saw the sad face that is a...

[GVladK]

I have the same problem, in Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3.

Unfortunately Flash Player plug in version 10 installs OK, BUT firefox insists that the outdated version 9 plugin is in place, and there no way to REMOVE plugins in Firefox, only disable them.

I read on another site that people had a similar problem in Windows -  indeed I had something close on a work computer - the new version had been installed but all sorts of DLLs from the old version were still there, and some programs (like Firefox) were confused as to which version to use.

This may happen if you have more than one browser (or if you operating system THINKS you have more than one browser....).

GK

[pwillener]

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/657743

[GVladK]

I am afraid that none of these stock out of the box suggestions were of any use. First of all, THERE IS NO COMPLETE UNINSTALLER FOR LINUX. Uninstalling Flash Player through the usual apt-get or GUI equivalent Package Maintainer does NOT remove Firefox's impression that an old plug in is still there.

What I finally had to do (and I don't know if it's Adobe's fault or Mozilla's) is manually copy (under SUDO persmissions) the new libflashplayer.so from its own path under usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/ to usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ .  As I say, I don't know exactly how things got messed up, but it would appear to me that the Adobe Flashplayer installation script put the .so file IN THE WRONG PLACE. Why on earth they thought they could just generate their own little subdirectory for their own plugin escapes me. I though only Microsoft did such arcane things.....

GK

[pwillener]

GVladK wrote:

I am afraid that none of these stock out of the box suggestions were of any use.

My post was meant for the original poster; I still don't know what the OP's OS is.

[Artaxerxes144]

Hello,

          My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium.

[pwillener]

What Firefox version are you using?

[Artaxerxes144]

I'm using version 3.6.8. I believe that is the most recent version.

[pwillener]

That is indeed the latest version.  There were some severe crashing problems with version 3.6.4, but your version should not cause these problems.

All I can suggest right now is a clean uninstall and reinstall of Flash Player:

• download the uninstaller from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html (save to disk);
• download the executable installer(s) from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html#main_ManualInstaller (save to disk);
• close all browser windows, the run the downloaded uninstaller, followed by the installer(s).

[Artaxerxes144]

OK. I'll give that a shot. I'm still curious about your name though. Was I prying into something of a personal nature? If so, I apologize.

[Artaxerxes144]

By the way, I have to ask this. I'm sure you've been asked this a billion times, but how do you get your name to appear upside down like that?

[pwillener]

P.S. after you complete the installation, check http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ if you can see the Flash aimation and version information beneath it.

P.P.S. I created my "upside-down" name by using Unicode characters from the range U+0250 ~ U+029F.